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Oh, what crueler irony could there be than for the gods to infuse a young man with dreams of literary fame and then provide him with no experiences?
even as the minute hand on the Reading Room’s clock advanced irreversibly toward eternity.
Suffice it to say that at the fork in the road, offer a young man an extra fifty dollars a week in exchange for a modest adjustment to his dreams, and you will have him by the throat.
Perhaps this assessment is too cynical.
authors have no business attempting to relive their glories or redeem their sins through the lives of their creations.
And the top of the capital T, which extended with such authority, it was sure to shelter the lowercase o in the event of rain.
all the schools would be canceled. Not just the Montessori ones.
If this summary strikes you as rather cold and abrupt, imagine how it sounded to Peggy.
After spending twenty years tugging themselves to some imagined middle ground, the divorce sent them shooting off in the opposing directions they had wanted to travel all along.
But there’s nothing particularly ironic about a curse. In fact, a curse is the opposite of irony.
No one is born pompous.
In the limpid pool, a starlet swam alone.
—My mother told me it was more important to be interested than interesting. —Have you heeded her advice? —Only as a last resort.
fancy term for the God-given flaws we have no intention of giving back.
It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence.
a woman who had been acquiescent for so long, she might never be passionate or opinionated again.
pouring what was left of himself into a glass, one ounce at a time.
overcoming the temptation to take another swig. At least, until the temptation overcame him.
For the world to have any sense of justice, a team of artisans had to come forward with their hammers and paintbrushes and pumice stones in order to patiently unmake the palaces of the proud.
